| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: and to take: yet we wish to be guests at your table: it
will be better so for both.'
Then Aietes' race rushed up like a whirlwind, and his eyes
flashed fire as he heard; but he crushed his anger down in
his breast, and spoke mildly a cunning speech -
'If you will fight for the fleece with my Colchians, then
many a man must die. But do you indeed expect to win from me
the fleece in fight? So few you are that if you be worsted I
can load your ship with your corpses. But if you will be
ruled by me, you will find it better far to choose the best
man among you, and let him fulfil the labours which I demand.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: double burden of David's work and his own ungrudgingly, but off
guard he was grave and abstracted. He began to look very thin, too,
and Lucy often heard him pacing the floor at night. She thought
that he seldom or never went to the Wheeler's.
And so passed the tenth day of David's illness, with the smile on
Elizabeth's face growing a trifle fixed as three days went by
without the shabby car rattling to the door; with "The Valley"
playing its second and final week before going into New York; and
with Leslie Ward unconsciously taking up the shuttle Clare had
dropped, and carrying the pattern one degree further toward
completion.
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: between his knees.
"Wasub, you have learned now everything. Is there no one left
alive but Jaffir? Are they all dead?"
"May you live!" answered Wasub; and Lingard whispered an appalled
"All dead!" to which Wasub nodded slightly twice. His cracked
voice had a lamenting intonation. "It is all true! It is all
true! You are left alone, Tuan; you are left alone!"
"It was their destiny," said Lingard at last, with forced
calmness. "But has Jaffir told you of the manner of this
calamity? How is it that he alone came out alive from it to be
found by you?"
The Rescue |
